People in the News—Aug. 23, 2019—Archer & Greiner
Archer & Greiner announced the 20th anniversary of its diversity programs.
August 23, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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Archer & Greiner celebrates 20 years of diversity. Shown, from left, the members of Archer's current diversity committee: Carlos Bollar (New Jersey), Stacey Sinclair (Archer COO), Lloyd Freeman (New Jersey), Debra Rosen, Carlton Johnson and Chris Gibson (Archer President).
Events
Archer & Greiner announced the 20th anniversary of its diversity programs.
To commemorate the occasion, Archer hosted a celebratory event attended by Archer diversity scholarship recipients from the last 20 years.
Archer's diversity initiatives involve recruitment, retention and mentoring programs designed to enhance career opportunities for minority and female attorneys.
Each year, the firm provides tuition support and summer associate employment to diverse law students from the Temple University Beasley School of Law and Rutgers Law School.
Additionally, the firm participates in the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group and hosts a Diversity Corporate Share Program in partnership with Panasonic Corp. of North America, the Hershey Co. and AmerisourceBergen.
|Honored
The Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas criminal section was awarded the Golden Crowbar at the annual Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Court Judges.
The award recognizes jurists who improve the administration of justice by implementing innovative projects.
This year, the award recognized Judges Leon W. Tucker, Lillian Harris Ransom, Kathryn Streeter-Lewis, Barbara McDermott and Jeffrey P. Minehart for their involvement with Juvenile Lifers Sentenced Without Parole Program.
In 2016, the Court of Common Pleas criminal section established JLSWOP as a case-management tool designed to expeditiously address post-conviction hearings for people impacted by U.S. Supreme Court decisions mandating resentencing.
After consultation with criminal justice partners, the court issued a general court regulation that established procedures to provide juvenile lifers the opportunity to show their crime did not reflect irreparable corruption, as well as set guidelines for timely disposition of petitions seeking post-conviction relief.
|Speakers
Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano associate Maureen Cassidy participated on the panel for a CLE course titled "Alternative Treatments in Chronic Pain Management: Ethically Treating Outside of Opioids."
The two-hour ethics course was presented by the Philadelphia Bar Association's workers' compensation section.
The course came together as a response to the opioid epidemic and the current statewide action to address the issue.
During the program, interventional pain medicine specialist Dr. H. David Qu discussed both basic and advanced alternative methods of pain management available to patients without the use of opioids.
Cassidy and defense attorney Andrea Rock from Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin provided a legal perspective from both sides of the workers' compensation bar, addressing the ethical issues with recommending or approving of each type of treatment.
Cassidy concentrates her practice solely on workers compensation.
She is certified as a specialist in workers' compensation by the Pennsylvania Bar Association as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
She is serving a three-year term as a hearing committee member for the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
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If you're a plaintiffs or defense attorney who has obtained a verdict or settlement in Pennsylvania county or federal court recently, email Zack Needles at [email protected].
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